School Music Now
ROM distances of many miles, 250 children came into Balclutha for the South Otago Schools Choir Festival, and an hour of the programme was broadcast from 4YA. Mr. George Wilkinson, who conducted the Massed Choirs, seemed. well aware that plain unison songs are best when dealing with such numbers of young voices, and the dignity with which they sang Beethoven’s "Creation’s Hymn," proved that good music is never above the level of those who attempt it in the right spirit. Of the individual schools which I heard, the most delicate performance came from the South Otago High School, who sang Purcell with delightful clearness and sweetness. There was a verse-speaking choir which made me wonder, when words are so clearly distinguished in speaking, why can’t they be recognised in singing? In my schooldays (not so long ago as all that, either), we sang atrocious songs with the full force of our lungs, and I wonder now that any parent éver dared to brave those bawling functions known as School Concerts. The modern Song Festival is a different matter altogether. thanks to the small band of enthusiastic teachers who make school music a pleasure to listen to as well as to perform.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 14
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204School Music Now New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 14
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